New Baby!

Introducing "Lucky". He earned the name by just barely avoiding being road kill yesterday. Jodi, one of the profs. at Hiram was driving students to Akron and stopped one inch short of hitting this little guy on a busy street! He crawled under her car, so they had to get out to capture him. He is a typical insane, loving kitten! He is litter trained already. The other cats are not too pleased at all. He hissed mightly at them in return and puffed himself up. He doesn't think dogs are at all cool either. He spit and hissed at them just for existing. He did finally calm down watching Shadow snore and fell asleep in my lap.

We are keeping all the cats locked in at night so they won't be able to harvest any more baby bunnies! It finally dawned on me that I could shut the cats in at night in the lower half of the house. We can't block the dog door or we would be getting up to let the dogs out all night. The cats are definitely NOT happy about this new arrangement. I rescued two tiny rabbits last night and took them to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center and I'm sick of finding slaughtered rabbits, mice, chipmunks, etc. in my house!

Socks and Flowers

I just finished socks for mom! They were knit from a yarn called 'Paintbox' which I thought was appropriate.

The clematis season is in full bloom! I just love these. They get better and better every year. We have them several places in our yard in different colors. The purple ones by the mailbox have not yet begun to bloom.

Have a great day!

Dragons? No! Balloons! Oh my!

Nothing like being able to sit in a swing in your garden and watch hot air balloons hiss like dragons as they float gracefully over your head!!!! So cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is always a special Memorial Day Weekend when the Blossom Festival Hot Air Balloon Race happens right over our neighborhood! What a gorgeous day!

Musings...

What a challenging spring. ARRRRRRRRGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Enough said.

Newest creation

Started these in February - then school REALLY got busy so these socks took a lot longer than normal. I just finished them tonight for George. (Bigger feet take longer too!) . Starting a multicolored pair tonight with a yarn called 'paint box'.

The curtains are up and the new door is stained and varnished and will go up tomorrow morning finishing the bathroom make-over! Hurrah! Then we can start thinking about redoing our bathroom - and all the other projects - like re roofing the garage, house siding, etc.

No sign of H1 N1 flu, so that is good. I'm just about finished prepping for the summer class I'm going to be teaching in a week and half and actually know what I will be paid before I teach it for a change!

I will be busy tomorrow finishing the cleaning of Anya's room, etc. in preparation for her coming home this weekend. We will go fetch her (and stuff her belongings in the van!) and visit Adam and Vanessa and George's sister Chris too. When Andy and Cindy are back in the States - we can add them to the list of persons to visit on our biannual trek to Baltimore!

Just Ducky...

We may have been exposed to the H1N1 virus aka Swine Flu. Just great. George said an employee came in to work yesterday and quickly got sicker and left for home after working half a day. It turns out his father has been home ill for several days. Guess where his father works? His father works in the only school in the Cleveland area with a confirmed case of the H1N1 virus in Elyria, Ohio. The child that was sick at this school just returned from a vacation in Mexico. We received a phone call this morning saying the employee and his children are all quite sick today. Connect the dots.... I guess I won't be visiting with anyone for a while.

Wash your hands! Stay home if you feel at all sick, please!!!!

Bathroom Update

The blue bathroom is almost finished ... just need to get the daisy embroidered curtains up and the door stained, varnished and up. Ran into a bit of a problem there. I can't remember which color stain I used on the bedroom door and I think I picked the wrong stain for the bathroom door. I started staining it today and it isn't the same color. Sigh.